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In 2010, Gordon’s sophomore season, police found Gordon and a teammate in a car with marijuana inside. While the teammate was booted from the squad, Gordon was only suspended. About a year later, Gordon was suspended indefinitely by then-coach Art Briles after failing a drug test and testing positive for marijuana.

The Cleveland Browns receiver, suspended for his last 48 NFL games, told Uninterrupted that coaches in his past enabled him, even aided him, in passing drug tests:

“I’ve been enabled most of my life. I’ve been enabled by coaches, teachers, professors, everybody, pretty much, gave me a second chance because of my ability. Not too long after I got arrested for possession of marijuana at Baylor, one of my coaches came by saying, ‘You are going to get drug tested by the compliance office. This is how it’s going to work, this is what they are going to do. If they do call you in, here goes these bottles of detox.’ He showed me how to drink them, showed me how to take them. That was my first experience with, like, getting over on the system and the authority not really being serious because it was kind of being guided by someone who was employed by the university.”

Yet Gordon still failed a drug test because he said he ran out of detox drinks. He also said he blames himself, not the coaches, for his problems.

“I failed the drug test because I was getting high,” he said.

Gordon, from Houston Lamar High School, said he was addicted to a number of drugs.

“I’ve used alcohol on many, many occasions, Xanax on many occasions, cocaine several occasions, marijuana most of my life, codeine, cough syrup, methazine — very prevalent where I’m from. It’s what I grew up using,” he said.

After Briles suspended Gordon in the summer of 2011, he transferred to Utah, where he sat out the season and never played.

Gordon was taken by Cleveland in the second round of the 2012 NFL Supplemental Draft.

He enjoyed a promising rookie season, then in 2013 was voted to the All Pro team after catching 87 passes for 1,646 yards and nine touchdowns. Five games into 2014, he was suspended and has never returned to the field.

Gordon, who has been in and out of rehabilitation centers, is still under contract with the Browns. There have been reports that he might finally be reinstated this fall.